LocalJobNetwork, a company which owns 600+ local job sites recently rebranded to “Circa” (circaworks.com) and I sat down with their CEO Patrick Sheahan for an interview. Check it;
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Indeed’s Capture & Kill Acquisition Strategy
Back in the 2000’s when I ran my local job board network I was constantly worried about competitors and how they were doing. As time passed, some of them went dark or folded and that’s when I pounced on the opportunity to buy their old domains/assets and redirect them to my own site. I reveled…
Google Reminds Job Sites to Go Remote
Last week Google sent out emails reminding job site owners to make sure their remote jobs are classified properly in their data schema. It only applies to the USA and UK at this point however. Here’s what it said. Search Console Promote work-from-home jobs on… Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google…
New Job Board Launches for Sales, Beverage Industries
TitanHouse today announced the launch of its cutting-edge platform for matching: Tech-focused employers with the right sales candidates Tech-focused sales professionals with their most compatible career opportunities The site uses rich, sales-centric data and proprietary technology to make the best possible career matches. Their process drives tremendous transparency and efficiency to the sales recruiting process….
LocalJobNetwork Rebrands as Circa
LocalJobNetwork™, a company which operates 600+ local job boards has announced a rebrand as Circa. The company also just acquired America’s Job Bank in a new deal. The company’s research shows that employers are shifting from diversity as a program to diversity as a business strategy. This repositioning better aligns its products and solutions to…
The Text Only Job Board
Lately I have been thinking about creating a text only job board. It’s a simple, one page website like what you see below. Texting open rates are at 95%+ vs. ~20% for email according to text recruiting software company Emissary. So why aren’t more job boards adding text to the mix? I feel like there…
Job Board News Bytes
DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that ClearanceJobs, the leading career marketplace for professionals with security clearances, has released Workflow, a product feature that allows recruiters to pre-program processes throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle, saving them time on typically tedious recruiting tasks. In the world of cleared candidate sourcing, time is money, and top candidates…
The chicken or egg job board question
Ryan, a reader sent me this question the other day; I have a niche sector that I’m going to target, though it’ll be global ideally and have jobs anywhere within the industry. My question though, in your experience, how do you get people to visit a website without lots of jobs and how do you…
New Matching Job Platform Launches
Techcrunch reported recently about the launch of Candidate Labs. Candidate Labs launched today as a modern talent agency, after operating in stealth for the past seven months. The company also announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. Candidate Labs connects a data platform with 100 million professionals to its database of…
BankTalentHQ Inks Partnership with America’s Job Exchange
This is a good strategy for an upsell product to employers. Jobs posted on BTHQ will be filtered to the diversity network on AJE. -CR BankTalentHQ is dedicated to connecting talent in the financial services industry, and we are excited to announce our latest partnership with America’s Job Exchange (AJE) to make connecting even easier…